It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.